@article{open2450, volume = {11}, month = {December}, author = {Abid Qureshi and Nishant Thakur and Manoj Kumar}, title = {VIRsiRNApred: a web server for predicting inhibition efficacy of siRNAs targeting human viruses.}, publisher = {BMC part of Springer Nature}, journal = {Journal of translational medicine}, pages = {305}, year = {2013}, url = {http://crdd.osdd.net/open/2450/}, abstract = {Selection of effective viral siRNA is an indispensable step in the development of siRNA based antiviral therapeutics. Despite immense potential, a viral siRNA efficacy prediction algorithm is still not available. Moreover, performances of the existing general mammalian siRNA efficacy predictors are not satisfactory for viral siRNAs. Therefore, we have developed "VIRsiRNApred" a support vector machine (SVM) based method for predicting the efficacy of viral siRNA.} }